Kat Hankinson is a writer whose work ranges from epic fantasy and historical drama to Westerns, comedy, and the occasional drunken Santa.

She began her professional television career as a WGA Writing Intern on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and went on to sell story concepts to Star Trek: Voyager. After leaving Hollywood, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami, where she received the program’s graduate fiction prize. She went on to earn a PhD from Stony Brook University, focusing on Native American autobiography and captivity narratives.

Her writing draws on a lifelong fascination with mythology, history, landscape, and the varied ways human beings make meaning of their lives.

Kat is also a visual artist and chess enthusiast. She lives and works in New York with a small menagerie that includes horses and tortoises.